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Mr. Foster said the. Government had to consider first how to keep the protection and encouragement which was necessary for the iron industry as a Whole; secondly how to reduce to the maker of iron mater- ials the raw material, bar iron; and, thirdly, how r0 induce the further working up of a pig iron from the ore to puddled bars, and bar iron. It was proposed L0 en- courage the latter step by increasing the duty on scrap iron, making the transition as easy as possible, by raising the duty by $1 per ton to the end of the present year. and thereafter having a. uniform duty of $1 per ton. 'lhis. it was hoped, would induce manufacturers to make a. better quality. It would provide that refuse iron, of which Mr. Edgar moved the second reading of abill to reduce from twelve to seven the number of grand jurors necessary to find a. true bill in the_Province 01 Ontario. The bill was read a second time. Mr. Charlton, in moving the second read- ing of the Act to secure a better observance of the Lord’s day,commonly called Sunday, hoped the subject would be approached free from party or personal influences. He ask- ed that the measure be considered simply upon its merits. On some occasions the promoter had been called a. crank, a fanatic, a. Puritan, and a selfâ€"righteous man. He dilclaimed any pretensions save that he de- sired to pxomate the welfare of the com- mu_uity. 7 Mr. Martin moved the second reading of a bill to extend the ballot to the North- VVest. Territories. Mr. \Veldon moved the second reading of a bill to disfranchise voters whohave taken bribes. Mr. Haggarb, replying to Mr. Bowers, gave the followingfreightrates on the Inter- national and connecting roads zâ€"For grain, by carload, per ton, to St. John, N.B.,from Montreal, 83 60, for export, 84: local to St. John, N. B., from Toronto, $4.30, for export $4.50 ; local to Halifax from Mont,- real, $3.60 for export and $4 local ; to Halifax from Toronto, $4.30 for export,and $4.50 local ; coal, per gross ton, from Syd- ney to Montreal, $3.51 from New Glasgow to Montreal, $2.80; from Springhill to Montreal, $2.19. Mr. Daly introduced a. bill to repeal the Homestead Exemption Act in the Territor- ies, which gives the Territorial _Assembly full power to deal with homestead exemp- tions. The provisions of the Homestead Exemption Actconflicted with the provisions of the Real Property Act. Chap. 45 of the ordinance of 1888 provided for exemptions up to $1,500, but the courts had held that this was not within the jurisdiction of the Territorial Assembly, and it was desired to retain this power. The bill is to accomplish this end. Mr. Foster said some relief had been given this year by the reduction ol the duty on the barrels. The Government, proposed to give a still further rcliefby reducing the duty to six cents per imperial gallon. The item as amended was carried. Mr. Fosbar mowed that the item of crude petroleum, etc., 3 3-5 cents per gallon, be amended to read zâ€"“Cmde petroleum fuel and gas oil, other than naphtha, beuzine,or gasoline, when imported by manufacturers, other than oil refiners, for use in their own factories for fuel purposes. also manufacture of gas, 3 cents per gallon.” The item as amended was adopted. Mr. Davxes objected to the duty of 7 1â€"5 cents on coal oil. He contended that this was a special tax upon the Maritime Pro- vmces. The following items were amended to read as follows 2â€"Plaster of Paris, calcined or manufactured, 40.: per barrelh Slate pencils, ‘25 pef cent. ; slates, roof- ing slates when 3pm: or dressed only, also school or writing slat/es, 30 per cent. COAL 01L.‘ Mr. Foster said that. the duty of 1 1â€"4 cents per pound on tomatoes and other vegetables, including com and baked beans, was a. drop from 2c in the old tariff. This was thought to be too sweeping a reduc- tion. He proposed the duty should be 1 1~2 cents per pound. The item passed as amended. Mr. Foster moved to change the duty on earthenware and stoneware. viz.. demijolma or jugs, churns or crooks, to 3 per gallon. This would restore the duty to what it was under the old tariff. The proposed duty of 1c would have destroyed the indusiry. The item passed as amended. AMENDED DUTIES. The following bills were read a first time:â€" Mr. Foster said the duty on stearine was 3c. per pound under the old tarifi'. It had been changed to 20 per cent, under the impression that it was not manufactured in this country. There was, however, n manu- factory of stearine in the city of Montreal, in which capital was invested, and which had been in operation for some little time. He belieVed the factory was a. branch of n New York firm. He proposed now, under these circumstances, to make the duty 2c 9. (onnd. Respecting the St. Lawrence Insurance Companyâ€"Mr. White (Cardwell). To incorporate the French River Boom Companyâ€"Mr. Coatsworth. To incorporate the Alberta. Southern Railway Companyâ€"Mr. Davis. The House again went into Committee of Ways and Means. SEVENTH PARLIAMENT â€" FOURTH SESSION AT OTTAWA. The bill was read a second time‘ The'bill was read a second time The bi}! was read a. first time. TEE DBMINIUN HUUSE. GRAND JURORS IN ONTARIO T0 DISFRANCXIISE BRIBERS. TERRITORIAL EXEMPTION. BALLOTS IN NORTH-WEST. SUNDAY OBSERVANCE CANNE D VEGETABLE. CRUDE PETROLEUM BILLS INTRODI‘ FREXGUT RATES. SCRAP IRON DE M U OIiNS. STEABINE. CED Manuel is {$111 Lea 90th year A London paper publishes a wonderful story of the achievements of a. boy at the old German town Zeitz. This boy owns a. (log which he taught to pronounce 31 words, 24 German and 7 French. The words are spoken one at a time, and only ab the dic- tation of the young teacher. The ‘ttalking dog of Zeitz" is the wonder of Europe, and nothing similar has ever been known, ex- cept the dog which was exhibited in H01!- and in 1718. This old-Lime canine wonder could pronounce all the letters of the alpha.- bet, except “I,” “m” and “n.” In due course the train rolled into the station, and after a, few minutes the Queen alighted. As her eye roamed over the people assembled there she caught sight of the person who had been ordered away ashort time previously, and apostrophizing him in German with the words, “Ah, soyou are there already, my dear Bernard: how nice it is to find you here !” beckoned him to her side, kissed him heartily, and then presen- ted him to the sadly disconcerled Italian dignitaries as the husband of her grand‘ daughter, the hereditary Duke of Sax- Meiningen . All these German royalties are so much accustomed to wearing uniforms that they never look well in civilian clothes, and I have never seen either the present Emperor of Austria. or the Emperor \Villiam look to such disadvantage as when in mufti. It was probably to this, too. that must; be at- tributed the incident that occurred when Queen Victoria. arrived at; Florence the other day. SUGAR. MnMcMullen objected to the duty of G4- 100 cents per pound on refined sugars. It was a. policy devised solely to put a million and a. half dollars a. year into the pockets of the refiners. Uses to “'Inleh the Deadly Venom is Put by [he Clever llimloos. Dried and pulverized cobra poison is al- most as deadly as when injected by the live cobra, says a writer in McClure’s Magazine. Native doctors use it medically in micros- copic doses and have a barbarous method of extracting it. They put a cobra into an earthen pot, and drop a banana in after it. They then tie down the lid and heat the pot over the fire. The wretched snake is soon tortured into a rage in its baking prison and bites the banana in its paroxysms. The fruit is afterwards carefully dried, and is then ready for use. It is pronounced under some circumstances to be a. wonder. ful powerful stimulant, but it is only used in extreme cases, and even then probably does infinitely more harm than good. The same preparation is also said to be employ- ed by leather-workers for poisoning other peoples cattle, With a view to afterwards buying up the hides cheap. This is a form of crime very prevalent in India, and one that the authorities find most difficult to check. For how is the ignorant native cultivator to prove that his plough bollocks have not died of cattle disease? He may complain to the nearest magistrate, and the magistrate may order the beasts to be ex. amined, but snake poison leaves no external marks and is almost impossible to detect chemically. It is :not surprising, under these circumstances, that he often decides to accept the loss and not incur the enmity of the cattle-poisoners bv seeking redress. Amoné the crowd that assembled on the railroad platform was a very ordinary and badly dressed individual, whoseattire clash- ed disagreeably with that of the English and Italian dignitaries who had assembled to greet lier arrival. Indeed, several of them took ofl'ence at what they were pleased to regard as his presumption in pressing for. ward among thermand roughly ordered him back behind the cordon of policeâ€"a. com- mand which he obeyed with merely a smile. ' LEAD. Mr. Barnard regreth that the Govern- ment had not, seen fit to increase the duty on lead, bars. block, and sheets, which was 60 cents per 100 pounds. The item was carried. ELECTRIC APPARATUS. Mr. Foster moved that "' generators, dy- namos,a.nd sockets ” be included with “elec- tric motors and apparatus, n.e.s., ‘25 per cent. advulorem.” Mr. Foster said nreduction of one-half had been made in the duty. To place it on the free list would destroy the work of eight or nine mills engaged in the indus- try. Mr. Charlton thought, barbed wire should be»p1a.c_ed on the free ligt. there was a great deal in this country, and which should not be allowed to go to waste, would not go to waste. Mr. Laurier said he would like the Fin~ ance Minister to tell the House about the remoustrances he had received from the users of scrap against increasing the duty. How could the Government defend the policy of increasing the duty on raw mater- ial and reducing it on agricultural imple- ments from 35 to 90 per cent. ? Mr. Foster said his hon. friends must certainly be mistaken. The implement men used no scrap. They used pig iron, and there was no increase on pig iron. They used, also, bar iron, on which there was a reduction of $3 a ton. 0n nothing which entered into the manufacture of agrian tural implements was the duty increased. The raising of the duty on sciap could not be urged as a hardship in this respect. The item was carried. Mr. Foster moved to change ferro-man- ganeae from 10 to 5 per cent, ad valorem. The item as amended was carried. Mr. Fostor moved that “ Swedish rolled iron nail rods, not more than one-half inch diameter, for the manufacture of horse malls,” be included in the item ef “Swedish rolled iron rods underfi-inch in diameter, and of not, less than 12 of a. cent per pound value, 15 per cent. ad valorem." The item as amended was carried The item as amended was carried. The item was carried The Talking Dog of Zeitz. THE COBR A'S POISON. hin FERRO- MANGANESE Royal Misfits. BARBEI NAIL RODS , who taught Jenny Lind although he will begin his 17. The religioua balance sheets which were prepared for the May matings, in London, show a. heavy decrease in missinary dona- tions. The Baptist and Methodist societies Show deficiis which aggregate about sixty- eight thousand pounds. Mr. Frank Hutton, editor of the VVash- iugtou Post, died the o‘Jler afternoon. Alter a long wait, the World’s Fai: stockholders are to be paid a. ten per cent“ dle-lend. Jacob Stecher Coxy, Carl Brown, and Christopher Columbus Jones, leaders of the Falstaflian army in Washington, have been arrested charged with a. vxolation of the statutes of the District of Columbia. Julie K. Jenny. daughter of Col. E. S. Jenny. one of the best-known lawyers of Cautral New Y ork, was admitted to the bar in Syracuse on Friday. The Great, Northern strike is over, and the men have returned to work, and are busy in getting out trains. The result was a complete victory for the men. Radcliffe College, the woman’s annex of Harvard, has been bequeathed the estate of Mrs. Sarah Parker, who died last week, valued at one hundred and fitty thousand dollars. At a meeting of Montreal insurance men it, was decided to write an open letter to newspapers complaining of the custom of using the fire department for parades and exhibitions. It was said that. the Montreal fire department was getting to be a laugh- ing stock in other cities, where it was scat,- ed that they did nothing but turn out in parade. The emigration from England to River St. Lawrence ports continues to decline. A supposed bomb was found 919 other morning at the entrance of the recruiting office in Spring gardens, London. The ublic ié becoming alarmed at the ease with which bombs, real or harmless, can be de- posited iu public buildings. Graff& 00., house wreckers, of Chicago, have bought. the World’s Fair buildings for eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. A sharp shock of earthquake was felt the other day in Cardiff, Eng, and its vicinity. The Lord Mayor of London has opened a. Mansion House fund for the sufferers from the earthquake in Greece. The Queen will leave Vl’indsor castle on the 20nd inst. for Scotland. On her way north she will visit Manchester and formally open the ship canal. Owing to the confessions of Francesco Polti, the Italian Anarchist recently ar- rested in London, many leaders of the party have fled to America. and the Con- tinenr. A London despatch says that the move' ment looking to a British protectorate over the Samoan islands is no larger disguised, bun is proceeding in a manner which seems to indicate that Great Britain believes she will be supported in the matter. The Public schools, of Chicago, are to b closed for a. week as a. precaution against smallpox, which is epidemic in a. section of the city. A branch of the National Council of We men was formed on Wednesday at. King stron. The honory degree of LL.D. has been conferred on Lord Aberdeen by McGlll University, Montreal. The congregation of Knox church, Ot- tawa, has decided by a. vote of one-hundred and tWenty-six to fifty-seven, to extend a. call to the Rev. James Ballantyne, of Lonâ€" don. at a salary of two thousand five hun- dred dollars. Ata. charity ball held in Winnipeg, on Thursday night, Major Coutlee, of the Winnipeg Field Battery, protested against; the use of American flags in the decorations of the hall, and 8. stormy scene ensued be- tween Col. Holmes, the adjutant-general of the district, and Major Coutlee, the latter finally withdrawing his men from assisting in the decorations. At a session of the Baptist Union, held in London recently. It was decided not to send a greeting to the United States. as a protest against the treatment accorded to negroes in that country. The American Consul at Bradford, Eng- land, reports remarkably successful results of the eight-hour movement in England, and gives examples Where It has been put to a thorough test in some large establish- men (a. Sir Francis Johnston, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Montreal, has ap- plied for superannuation. In the Supreme Court at Ottawa. during the argument on prohohition, Chief Justice Strong said, when Mr. Maclaren for Onta- rio claimed the right to prohibit themauu- factnre of intoxicants, that they might as well Claim the power to prohibit the manu- facture of cotton. It has been decided by the medical faculty of McGill University, Montreal, that on and after the termination of the annual sessions for 18939-1 the course will be extended to nine full calender months, commencing in The honorary degree of L. L. D., of Queen’s University, Kingston, 0nt,, has been conferred on Lieutenant-Governor Schultz of Manitoba. A Ottawa evening paper complains on the custom of (he members of deputations visiting the cit-y having their meals at the Parliamentary restaurant instead‘of patro- nizing the hotels. The Montreal pool-room men have noti- fied the Superintendent; of Police that, they will not. close until the law compels them to do so. Actions will be taken immediate- ly against the owners of the pool-rooms. September and ending in June of the ‘fol- lowing year. THE WEEK’S NE The City Council of Kingston, 01m, on Monday night, fixed the rate of taxation at 17% mills. President Van Home, of the Canadian Pacific railway, and pin-by left Montreal on Saturday on the annual tour of inspection, which will take up about. three week’s time. The Canadian Pacific railway shops, at Toronto Junction closed on May lst. GREAT BRITAI N. UNITED STATES. ANADIAN accepted, and a social evening was arranged for. At dinner there were present Klakwitz, his wife, his two daughters, aged nineteen and seventeen years respectively, a. young son aged eleven, his wife's mother, and his neighbor and his wife. The dinner passed off very pleasantly until the third course, wnen Klakwitz rose, and, ordering some more champagne to be opened, said that he wished all present to drink a toast to a special dish he had prepared as a surprise lor this agreeable occasion. He then left the room. and within two minutes returned, bearing in his nrirs a large dish, covered with a dinner cover.and placing it quickly on the table, he lifted his glass on high and shouted e “'10 our next meeting I" _ He had scarcely spoken these words, when a dynamite bomb, which had been hidden under the cover, exploded and in- stantly killed every one in the room, with the exception of the servant-girl and the youngest daughterâ€"the latter living, how- ever, only long enough to tell exactly what had happened. The servant died Within two hours. The unfortunate people who were the victims of this insane freak were simply blown to pieces, and the walls of the room in which they Were sitting were partly blown out. The explosion was heard for half a mile. $100 FOR THIS BOY. fiddle Itrolherlon Carried on‘ by an Organ Iirlnderâ€"in Canada Somewhere. A letter has been received by a Toronto detective agency from Ashley. Penn., mak- ing enquiries for a little child named Eddie Brotherton, a 5-year-old lad, who was recently abducted by an Italian organ grinder. m. ,, ALA ‘_ALA._ _A_A, 1-,", 1 u I l lllndoos able to Utilize Their Nether Ex- lremltles to Great Advantage. In the native quarters of the towns of India the strange spectacle may be seen of a. butcher seizing a piece of meat in his hands and cutting it in two with a stroke of his knife held between the first and second toes of his foot. The shoemaker uses no last, but turns the unfinished shoe with his feet, while his hands are busy in shaping it. So the carpenter holds with his great toe the board he is cutting and the woodturner handles his tools as well with toes as with his fingers. The use of the feetto assist the hands in their labor is not, however, the mere result of practice. but is principally due to the fact that the Hindoo foot is quite different from ours in its anatomical conformation. The ankle of the Hindoo and the articulation of the back of the foot, permit considerable later- al motion. Then the toes possess a sur- prising mobility. Thegreat toe can be moved freely in all directions and the first and second toes are separated by a wide space, sometimes as much as five-eighths of an inch across at the base of the toes and two inches at their extremities. The articulation of the hip is also peculiar, and this renders it easier to use the toes in hand- ling the objects by enabling the Hindoo to sit in squatting posture much more com- fortably than we can do. A similar for- mation of the feet and toes is found among the Annamese, but it is not, as might be supposed, a common thing amongbarbarous and savage tribes. One naturally thinks of the resemblance to a monkey which ahuman being using both feet and hands must pres- ent and yet M. Regnault is careful to point out the fact that the Hindoo foot is not at all like the foot of an ape or monkey. The great toe is not opposed to the other toes like a thumb, as occurs with a monkey. and accordingly the pedal dexterity of the Hin- doos is not to be taken as an indication of simian descent. A wealthy land-owner named Crome has been arrested in Leipzig, charged with having poisoned his wife and adopted son to obtayn the insurance on their lives. The Bavarian Government, with the double View of preventing adulteration and bring profits to Bavarian Treasury, has opened an extensive drinking saloon in Mu- nich. Their Last Meal. A tragedy of a most; remarkable charac ter is reported from Vilna, Russia. Ivan Klakwitz, a customs officer of highly res- pectable connecfion, became convinced that his wife was in league with a. neighbor to air] thelatter in a lawsuit which was pend- ing against him. There was apparently no justification (or the charge. The lawsuit was tried in the local courns, and Klakwitz lost the case. He addressed the judge in an excited manner, and, after making a rambling statement implicating his wife in an intrigue against him, he left the court- room. He then left the room. and Within two minutes returned, bearing in his arms a. large dish, covered with a dinner covenand placing it. quickly on the cable, he liited his glass on high and shouted: “'10 our next, meeting I" _ He had scarcely spoken these words, when a dynamite bomb, which had been hidden under the cover, exploded and in- stantly killed every one in the room, with the exception of the servant-girl and the youngest. daughterâ€"the latter living, how- ever, only long enough to tell exactly what had happened. The servant died Within two hours. GENERAL. An employe of the French War Office has been arrested on a. charge of complicity with the Anarchists. The chief manager of the Vienna branch of the Rothschilds’ banking-house was stab- bed on Friday by a beggar to whom he refused aims. Prince Carlos Bourbon, Duke of Madrid, the Bourbon pretender to the Spanish zhrone. was married at Vienna on Saturday morning to Princess Marie Bel-the de Ro- hm. Honolulu advices any that the Govern- ment’s internal troubles are growing more serious every hour, and that the Royalists are rejoicing because of the disafiecbion. Dr. Montaldo, the chiei medical director of the Spanish Government, who was sent to Lisbon to enquire into the character of the disease now raging there, declares the disease to be true Asiatic cholera. Sir John Gordon Sprigg, Treasurer of the Government of Cape Colony, referring to the coming inter-Imperial conference in Ottawa, says the Cape Government mn- curs in the objects of that meeting, but its participation in the conference depended upon the character of the reply expected from the Canadian Government. Later in the day, however, he professed regret to his wife for his baseless insinua- tiong _a.|:d hagpy pgmperl and > qskgd his neighbor and hié wife {0 dine with him en famille. Thinking it better that a. recon’ ciliation should take place, the neighbor accepted, and a. social evening was arranged for. At dinner there were present Klakwitz, his wife, his two daughters, nged nineteen and seventeen years respectively, a. young son aged eleven, his wife's mother, and his neighbor and his Wife. The dinner passed off very pleasantly until the third course, wnen Klekwitz rose, and, ordering some more champagne to be opened, said that he wished all present to drink a. toast to a special dish he had prepared as a surprise lor this agreeable occasion. A letter has been received by a. Toronto detective agency from Ashley. Penm, mak- ing enquiries for a little chilrl named Eddie Brntherton, a 5-year-old lad, who was recently abducted by an Italian organ grinder. The boy, the letter says, followed the organ grinder from his parents’ home, and {or some time he was not missed. When his absence was discovered and enquiries made, not the slightest trace of his where~ abouts could be found. Detectives were employed, and they worked on the case for some time without success. The organ grinder was traced through several small places in the state of Pennsylvania, at most of which he had been seen with a child answering little Eddie’s description. Finally the organ grinder was located at \Vilkesbarre and lodged in jail for another offense. He at first denied all knowledge of the child, but on being threatened he said he sold Eddie to two other men going north. They are supposed to be in Canada, the police and several other agencies have been notified. ' A Philadelphia despatch says that at the end of the first week of the great coal miners’ strike only one mine is in operation in the district east of the Alleghenies, and the miners show no disposition to return to work. A Berlin paper asserts that the Emperor has plainly indicated to the Minister of Foreign Affairs his decided opinion that the interests of Germany in Samoa ought not, under any circumstances,to be abandon- ed. A citizen of Ashley has offered $100 re- ward for the recovery of the boy alive or information which will lend to the finding of his remains if he is dead. The Queen paid her farewell visits in Co- burg on Saturday, and left {or London by 1} special train at seven o’clock in the even- While sixteen miners were descending the shaft of a. coal mine near Mons, Belgium, on Saturday, the cable broke and the cage fell to the kottom of the shaft. Thirteen men were killed, and the other three were fatally injured. Hendrick de Jong, the man who has been in prison in Amsterdam since September last. on suspicion of having murdered two women whom he had married, has been found guilty of obtaining money under false pretencee, and sentenced to four years’ imprisonment. “I have gone over a good deal of the in- terior,” said Mr. Stephen. “I took espec- ial notice of what was going on in the large cities and I have come to the conclusion that the politiCal and financial regeneration of Australia depends almost wholly upon the confederation of the several colonies,which as every one pretends, will bring about the consolidation of the different railway lines and the rearrangement of the pub- lic debt. They have in the past spent, money like water upon useless public works, while to-day the city of Melbourne, with almost half a. million souls, has not reached beyond surface drainage. The class of people who look ahead, and those who think out these great questions for themselves are convinced that Australian confederation must be accomplished within a. very short time if the country is to take its proper place among Britain‘sleeding dependencies. Mr. Stephen is particularly sanguine as to the happy results that would accure from an amalgamation of the railway lines in that far-off country. As it is at present, he added, there is a change 'of gauge every ,few hundred miles, which necessitates the iever additional expense attending reship- ment of treight and passengers; and al- ‘though the roads are well built as a l'general rule, the general result of their ’manugemeut is a. long way from being as profitable as if the proposed consoli- dution were an accomplished fact.“ Why,” said the wide-awake traveler, “if the Governments could sell their railways to a great private corporation the proceeds would almost pay the country’s debt and at the same time bring untold benefit to the people of Australia. Were confedera- tion to take place,” Mr. Stephen opined, l“ the expenses of Government would be reduced to a tremendous extent and the system itself wonderfully simplified. Each country is over-governed, and I noticed with surprise and regret that there is a. great amount of jealousy between the dif- ferent parts of the country. This,however,' l he believed, “ would gradually disappear 1 if a. strong central Government were estab- lished, and the conflicting or warring in< terests made to harmonize, as was the case when the North American colonies were brought into one united whole in 1867. I should also state that the leading classes out there are eagerly watching the politi- cal, social and commercial development of the Canadian union, and no doubt our Mr. William Stephen, arrived in Mont- real recently after having visited New Zea- land and the different colonies of the Aust- ralian continent. In an interview Mr. Stephen remarked that it was not to be expected that those countries would have so soon recovered from the recent financial depression through which the business world of Australia so recently passed ; yet the business men and financiers ex- pressed fond hopes for the future. Confederation Considered to be a Neces- sllyâ€"lncrenscd Interest In Canadian Affairs. wonderful success in'che way of becoming a. great nation, will have a. deal to do In bringing about, a like state of affairs in Australia.” NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA. BUSXNESS MEN EXPRESS HOPES FOR THE FUTURE. . The melancholy and monotonous shrilling oi the locusts will be heard in the country this summer. the insects returning after seventeen years, although it seems a good deal less than that length of time since they were here before. There are probably dif- ferent varieties, however, or they all do not compute from the same point of beginning. So much strange lore is attached to the locust, especially in the Biblical references, that it is no Wonder superstitious forebod- ings arise in certain minds when the an noucement is made that he is expected. Science has, for the most part, disarmed him of his terrors, however: his coming signifies nothing, except that nature is per- forming her routine course, and his exis- tence is in no way allied to famine, war or epidemics. He simply plays his noisy little part for some weeks in thesummer and then disappears for another long interval. HANDY WITH THEIR FEET. Seventeen Year- Locusts.